Notes and Narratives of a Six Years' Mission, Principally Among the Dens of London |
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Page 10
... called " Jack Ketch's Warren , " from the fact of the number of persons who were hung at Newgate from the courts and alleys , especially at the period when £ 1 notes were in circulation , and forgeries SO common . Aged men , who were ...
... called " Jack Ketch's Warren , " from the fact of the number of persons who were hung at Newgate from the courts and alleys , especially at the period when £ 1 notes were in circulation , and forgeries SO common . Aged men , who were ...
Page 14
... called plants . Sometimes the accounts I have received re- specting the formidable disturbances which once took place on my district and in the neighbour- hood have been of a very strange character . An old Bow Street officer , who yet ...
... called plants . Sometimes the accounts I have received re- specting the formidable disturbances which once took place on my district and in the neighbour- hood have been of a very strange character . An old Bow Street officer , who yet ...
Page 40
... called for , and was about to bow me out , when , anxious not to leave without imparting to him some religious instruction , I pleasantly told him , to attract his attention , that his music reminded me of a passage of Scripture . This ...
... called for , and was about to bow me out , when , anxious not to leave without imparting to him some religious instruction , I pleasantly told him , to attract his attention , that his music reminded me of a passage of Scripture . This ...
Page 49
... called upon to encounter a severe trial . I was seized with violent itchings between the joints , accompanied with redness . I appeared to have caught the itch . Dr. West , one of the honorary physicians to the Mission , could not ...
... called upon to encounter a severe trial . I was seized with violent itchings between the joints , accompanied with redness . I appeared to have caught the itch . Dr. West , one of the honorary physicians to the Mission , could not ...
Page 52
... called to the door , and the poor person with whom she resided informed me by whom . I could hear the few words that passed , which led me to form the above opinion concerning him . She could not bear the shame , she said , of going ...
... called to the door , and the poor person with whom she resided informed me by whom . I could hear the few words that passed , which led me to form the above opinion concerning him . She could not bear the shame , she said , of going ...
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